I have the CC certification and I still cant get a computer job. Are there really more positions open the candidates for cyber security? It does not seem so to me. Wish I could get a cyber security job.
@Deetrain wrote:I have the CC certification and I still cant get a computer job. Are there really more positions open the candidates for cyber security? It does not seem so to me. Wish I could get a cyber security job.
I apologize if the marketing may have led you to believe the CC would be all you need to land a job in the industry. It's a piece of the puzzle. This is a new certification to us (existing (ISC)2 members), too. It's not like this credential grew out of some member-based initiative. We're still figuring out what it tests and how to value it.
I would say, that you need three things to land a job in this industry. In order of priority:
Good luck with your job search. I'm not sure about the methodology behind the claims that there are millions of job openings. I think that is based upon what some security managers would like to see, but what we have budget-wise and what we would like are often very different things. I also suspect the sampling may be biased. For example, I think we are also seeing a shift where security and IT are becoming decentralized or at least not growing in a central way. Where I see this going is a lot more cross-functional roles and a lot more delegating of security out to the workforce. We're already there with remote work and cloud-computing. Again, that returns to #1 and #2 on my list.